Samuel Hoare

Samuel Hoare (24 February 1880-7 May 1959) was the British Foreign Secretary from 7 June to 18 December 1935, succeeding John Simon and preceding Anthony Eden.

Biography
Samuel Hoarew as born in London, England in 1880, and was educated at Harrow and Oxford. He was elected to Parliament in 1910 as the Conservative Party MP for Chelsea, and he served in intelligence in Russia and Italy during World War I. As Air Minister from 1922 to 1929, he did much to develop both civil aviation and the new Royal Air Force. As Secretary of State for India from 1931 to 1935, he was responsible for the Government of India Act in 1935. As Foreign Secretary in 1935, he tackled the problem of the Second Italo-Abyssinian War. With Pierre Laval, he devised the Hoare-Laval Pact, proposing to partition Ethiopia. Public outcry led to Stanley Baldwin to reject the plan and Hoare resigned. In 1937, he became Neville Chamberlain's Foreign Secretary, though his support for the Munich Agreement effectively disqualified him from joining Winston Churchill's War Cabinet. He was ambassador to Spain from 1940 to 1944, when he helped dissuade Francisco Franco from entering World War II. He died in 1959.